"He..."
Looking at the simple lines of text on the information, Minister Shen couldn't help but speak.
You can hear a bit of unbearable excitement and unbelievable surprise in his tone.
But Professor Bai gently raised his hand to stop him.
"I also know that this report is bizarre, but before questioning it, maybe we should look at something in more detail."
While saying these words, he gestured to Chen Jing.
Chen Jing understood, picked up the file bag, gently poured it out, and poured out a few boxes of tapes.
These are all information attached to the final report for interpretation or as evidence.
She rummaged through it and took out one of the tapes.
I came to the recorder, put the tape in, and then pressed a few buttons, and the tape started playing automatically.
Professor Bai, Minister Shen, Mr. Su also suppressed their inner excitement and turned around to look.
On the TV screen, a sealed laboratory appeared.
The layout of the laboratory is extremely simple. Apart from a few cameras, there is only a shelf in the middle and the apples on it.
All cameras are pointed at the apple.
The picture was motionless, only the numbers on the corners kept beating, indicating that this was not a still picture.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Mr. Su was hesitating whether to let Chen Jing play it for a while, the screen suddenly flickered.
As if it was under a huge electromagnetic influence, the picture kept beating, and soon turned into countless twisted and entangled lines.
Two seconds later, the noise reached its peak, and then the picture suddenly became normal.
The picture was still the same, but they saw that the apple where the camera was pointed at had disappeared...
"What's going on?"
Mr. Su and Minister Shen were both slightly startled and straightened up.
There were expressions of surprise and confusion on their faces.
"Back off."
Professor Bai looked at Chen Jing. When the screen moved back a few frames, he said again, "Stop."
The picture at this time stopped at the time when the lines were beating most violently. It was so chaotic that it was almost impossible to see anything clearly.
But Professor Bai stared at the screen for a long time, then slowly stood up and pointed to a part of the screen.
He said softly, "What is this?"
Mr. Su and Minister Shen both tilted their heads and tried to identify them carefully.
After a while, Mr. Su hesitated and said, "A... hand?"
Minister Shen After a while, he could only nod his head in approval.
Although the picture is extremely distorted, if you observe carefully and make connections, you can still find that among the extremely chaotic lines, the shape of a hand is faintly outlined, appearing strangely and grabbing the apple on the shelf.
It's like an abstract painting, you need to use your imagination to distinguish it.
"Yes."
Professor Bai nodded slightly and said, "This is a pale palm that is distorted by the picture."
As he spoke, he picked up the paper placed second in the document bag and said:
"This experiment is to test an ability recently acquired by an individual soldier."
"Previously, the old building where he lived suddenly disappeared and reappeared, which caused us great trouble."
"This experiment of retrieving objects from the air explains, to a certain extent, the mysterious phenomenon of the disappearance of that old building."
"When this experiment was conducted, the soldier was at sea three hundred kilometers away from us."
"The footage captured by the camera was from an underground experimental base at Satellite City No. 4 in Qinggang."
"In the sealed room, the walls are made of precision tempered glass, and eight cameras are used to take pictures of the apple from various angles."
"In addition, all experimental personnel should clear the space and observe with the naked eye outside the glass wall."
"In other words, a single soldier who is 300 kilometers away can take away this apple through his abilities even when ordinary ability users cannot affect the apple through strengthened glass."
"The picture became distorted and chaotic because the mental power at that moment was so great that it affected the camera's shooting."
"In addition, according to the researchers who observed at the scene, they all felt intense headaches and auditory hallucinations at the moment the apple disappeared. It was as if they were affected by severe mental radiation through the glass wall, but they could still see a pale palm with a nail on it, as if it had passed through layers of invisible glass, reaching into the laboratory."
"It was the palm that took the apple."
"And this is consistent with what the observers at the old building saw."
"..."
Mr. Su, Minister Shen, and Chen Jing all listened to Professor Bai's words in surprise, with expressions of disbelief.
Is this an illusion, or is there really such a hand?
The use of abilities is usually accompanied by a large number of hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. This is common sense.
Professor Bai explained and motioned to Chen Jing to continue. After the video progressed for seven or eight seconds, the picture became chaotic again.
The apple appeared on the shelf again, but someone had already taken a bite.
"Bite by a single soldier."
Professor Bai said, "Afterwards, the testers detected his DNA on the apple, which confirmed the authenticity of the experiment."
Mr. Su and Minister Shen understood, but there was no look of relaxation on their faces.
Instead, the muscles on his face were extremely tense, and his expression was extremely shocked. "Fetching objects from the air? Or does it affect reality?"
No matter which one it was, they were so frightened that it was difficult to accept it.
"To be precise, it should be stealing..."
Professor Bai slowly explained, "Research Institute shared several unknown abilities they recorded some time ago."
"Just like some Mental Mutant can steal other people's knowledge and even memories, there are also people who can directly steal other people's identities. One of the biggest incidents is the identity disguise incident that happened to Central City Satellite City No. 7..."
"A senior executive of a certain Central City government department was reported to have committed many mistakes including corruption and bribery."
"But during the investigation, this man completely denied it and didn't even have the slightest memory."
"Originally, I thought it was just an ordinary administrative discipline case, but during the subsequent investigation, Eclipse Research Institute was alarmed by some unexplainable doubts. They sent senior investigators to take action and finally found out where the problem occurred."
"There was a capable person lurking around that executive who caused these problems."
"At certain critical moments, he stole the identity of this executive and used this identity to face bribers and stakeholders. After agreeing on certain things with these people, he asked them for certain benefits and benefit exchanges."
"Things went smoothly, but the bribers were under the impression that they were dealing directly with the executive."
"..."
What Professor Bai said was obvious, but Mr. Su and others had confused looks on their faces.
"To put it simply..."
Professor Bai thought for a while, looked up at Minister Shen, and said, "If that ability person is here, then when he comes into close contact with you, he can take your identity to contact others, and even directly order to activate City Defense Department's overfrequency electromagnetic gun. People who are contacted by him will only think of him as you... Of course, the number of people who can be deceived is limited. The more people there are, the harder it is to deceive."
"Similarly, the stronger its own ability, the more people it can deceive."
"..."
"Don't give such an example..."
Minister Shen The more he listened, the more hairy he became. He couldn't help but grit his teeth slightly. "This is also..."
"... It's terrible."
"..."
Mr. Su was even more nervous. "Does an individual soldier also have this ability?"
"No."
Professor Bai shook his head. "The ability of an individual soldier should belong to a higher level."
"Those disguise-type ability users, as well as other abilities at the same level, in the first or second stage, are more of just stealing emotions, memories, self-awareness, instincts, etc., and their respective performances are also different."
"Each spiritual power acts on seven aspects of a person, and seven different abilities will appear."
"Although we have not collected enough cases, we can already deduce these seven abilities based on existing theories."
"Just like the power of stealing, if it acts on perception, it can steal your perception."
"He may have the ability to steal your vision and see what you see, steal your hearing and hear what you hear. He may even directly steal your sense of touch, so that he can know what you are touching, or a more terrifying ability that prevents you from feeling what you are touching."
"... Just like you are touching a red-hot iron, he can steal your perception."
"In this case, he will feel the feeling of his skin being burned by the iron, but you will not feel it yourself."
"He can bear the pain, but you will be burned alive with a red-hot iron."
"..."
After finishing speaking, he paused slightly, and then said, "When it acts on emotions, it can steal your happiness or sadness, or all kinds of emotions. When it acts on desires, it can steal your obsession, love or hatred for someone or something."
"If it acts on memory, it can steal your knowledge, your secrets, and your life."
"Acting on instinct, he can make you unresponsive when faced with danger and make your heart stop beating without you realizing it..."
"It acts on understanding and can steal your understanding of the world..."
"..."
"..."
"Stop, stop talking, I understand..."
Mr. Su couldn't help but raise his hand, his face turned pale. "Do these abilities exist?"
"Theoretically it exists."
Professor Bai nodded and said, "We have not discovered and recorded so many cases, nor are they so complete."
"Many people with abilities have never been discovered."
"Not every ability user will be as obvious as Spider-type or Kid. They are more suitable for hiding in the crowd."
"Just relying on discovery and recording, it would be impossible to collect everything in just thirty years."
"What we have to do is to summarize and reason, and analyze these abilities that may exist in theory."
"..."
After explaining this, Professor Bai returned to the topic, looked up at the TV screen, and said:
"The ability of an individual soldier should fall into the category of theft."
"It's just that his ability is more advanced. He has even been able to pass through space and directly steal objects in reality."
"Essentially, his stealing of this apple is the same phenomenon as the mysterious disappearance of the old building before."
"Then..."
Minister Shen's eyes couldn't help but widen a little. "He can directly steal a building. If he is stronger, wouldn't it be..."
The rest of the words were not spoken, but everyone understood them.
If you can steal one old building, can you steal two buildings? Can you steal a city?
Is it possible to steal some secret forbidden weapons?
Confidential documents and the like, not to mention...
"I know what you are thinking..."
Professor Bai shook his head slightly and said, "But there is no need to worry so much yet."
"Through the examination of the individual soldier's ability and his personal explanation, we can know that there are prerequisites for his theft."
"First of all, he must know the exact location of this thing, otherwise the theft will fail."
"And the higher the quality and attention of the thing stolen, the more mental power needs to be consumed."
"For example, this apple is in a secret laboratory and he can steal it."
"But if everyone in a city is looking at this apple, he may not be able to succeed..."
"As for that old building, we can't calculate it according to common sense."
"You also know that this old building itself has undergone the highest level of transformation and is no longer a conventional real-life object."